Tutorial Playing with Apply Ground Tools.

[Daskunk]

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The first one called Raise. What it does? Raises.

Wiiiiisssdom.

Woot. Then you show A picture were you used it. Hmmm, I dont feel smarter by looking at somthing sombody did.

This is the lower tool. It lowers.

Thats pretty much what you said. Seriously. Duh.

A Tip: When you create any map, choose "Initial water level - Shallow Water"
Then when the map is created, use Raise tool to cover all water.
Later when you need rivers, just use lower tool to get 'em

I allready knew what by chance, but thats acually the first helpfull thing in it.

I'll keep this tool for the end of tutorial, it's my favorite

Uhh... Ohh.. I think... I think I can feel my brain growing!

Noise tool creates ugly hills and deformates ground.
Smooth tool polishes all edges, attemts to math all terrain in same size.
So those two is perfect couple.
First noise your terrain
Then smooth it:

The icon with bumps makes bumps. And the one called smooth smoothes things. Use them and it looks good.. *Brains veins pulse with wisdom*

Doesn't really look like something changed... Just more edges. Oh well, I use this tool rarely anyway.

K. Lol...

This lovely tool grabs terrain height on where was it clicked, and by dragging applies same height on other place. This can create different cliff heights, ramps [using with smooth tool] and even craters [ I'll show later ]
So here's this simple map with plaetau:

HMM. The plaetau tool makes plaetau's. ("plateau >noun (pl. plateaux or plateaus) 1 an area of fairly level high ground. 2 a state or period of little or no change following a period of activity or progress.")
All this new info at A time. My brainz hurt.

The hill levels I've added doesn't really shows up. But wait 'till I swich some terrain tiles

We will wait allright, but what should WE be doing? Nice terrain galleraly, weres teh tutorial...

Now how's that? Let's add some doodads to make this litle place more alive.

Yes lets. But how? And how is this related to the tutorial.

NOTE: Blizzard's doodads nearly all is oversized. Same with some units. For better effect reduce size 2x of things you place. I did it for rocks, flowers, cattails and critters.

Thats a matter of opinion, and still not teaching me anything.. ><

This time I took barrens theme.

Yay? Terrain showcase more? Fun fun? o.0

And it keeps going on like this..
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Thats just a example of what I ment. As for "So the problem with my "plain" turorial is solved for you now?" I still dont like it, but as other people seem to Im not complaining.. xD

 

[Ghostwind]

I find my cliffs are made by plateauing an area, raising the bottom and the area behind the top, and then smoothing. I find that easier than the method you mentioned here, but it still works. Anyways very good for a new terrainer.